Timon Austerlitz

Timon Austerlitz (14 September 1909-2 May 1945) was the Gauleiter of Zolochiv in the Ukraine under Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Timon Austerlitz was born on 14 September 1909 in Kulm (Chlumec), Bohemia, then a part of Austria-Hungary. Austerlitz enlisted in the Austrian Army in 1927 and rose to the rank of Major by 1934, when he was discharged from the army for his membership in the Nazi Party. Austerlitz returned to his native Czechoslovakia, now independent, and became a lawyer. After the German occupation in 1939, Austerlitz became a member of the German Reichstag and was appointed as the Gauleiter of Zolochiv in the Ukraine during 1941 Operation Barbarossa during World War II. Austerlitz had to deal with Soviet partisans acting behind German lines and he was wounded in 1944 by a sniper's bullet to the chest. Austerlitz survived narrowly and returned to Germany in March 1945 after his health deteriorated. On 2 May 1945 he died of his wounds as Berlin fell to the Soviet Union.